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Like dystopian sci-fi cyberpunk tales? Like virtual reality? Check outHarsh Reality!

This short film has already begun production, but the cyberpunk thriller needs your help for completion funds. The story is abouta professional gamer whos been kidnapped and subjected to a mind-altering VR program. It reminds me a little of a certain Black Mirror episode (and even A Clockwork Orangea touch)in both theme and content.Harsh Realityisabout how technology separates us from the consequences of our actions, and on the flip side of the coin, how that same technology connects us to others.

To prep for the film including the commercial writer/director Iain Marcks researched VR, EMDR, media theory, and the political roots of cyber culture. He also consulted Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, an early advocate of open source culture and an influential author, teacher, and documentarian who is associated with the beginnings of cyberpunk. (Dr. Rushkoff has donated some campaign perks and makes a cameo appearance in the film).

Harsh Realityasks: What happens when technology designed to help us is used against us?

Let's find out.ScreenAnarchy has the exclusive on the commercial for the the NSYS-EX, the therapeutic device which serves as the basis of the narrative for the film. (You can see it below.) In the universe ofHarsh Reality, the NSYS-EX is the latest in enhanced psychotherapeutic rehabilitation in a nutshell, its psychotherapy via virtual reality.

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